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Report - Beelitz - HeilstÃ¤tten - Germany - July 2012

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Last summer I decided to visit Beelitz on my way to Poland. Place is massive and equally amazing. I explored just a small part of it.

Here is some history (Wiki):
- Beelitz-HeilstÃ¤tten, a district of the town, is home to a large hospital complex of about 60 buildings including a cogeneration plant erected from 1898 on according to plans of architect Heino Schmieden. Originally designed as a sanatorium by the Berlin workers' health insurance corporation, the complex from the beginning of World War I on was a military hospital of the Imperial German Army. During October and November 1916, Adolf Hitler recuperated at Beelitz-HeilstÃ¤tten after being wounded in the leg at the Battle of the Somme. In 1945, Beelitz-HeilstÃ¤tten was occupied by Soviet forces, and the complex remained a Soviet military hospital until 1995, well after the German reunification, abandoned in 2000.